Re: PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA

[Linus Torvalds]

In article <[e-mail]>,
Roland McGrath  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>This patch vs 2.5.51 (should apply fine to 2.5.52) adds two new ptrace
>requests for i386, PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA and PTRACE_SET_THREAD_AREA.
>These let another process using ptrace do the equivalent of performing
>get_thread_area and set_thread_area system calls for another thread.

Looks fine, except I'd ask you to split up the get/set logic as separate
functions, instead of making that case-statement thing horribly big.

Big functions are bad.

So please make it look something like

	case PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA:
		ret = ptrace_get_area(addr, (struct user_desc *) data);
		break;

	case PTRACE_SET_THREAD_AREA:
		ret = ptrace_set_area(addr, (struct user_desc *) data);
		break;

instead, ok?

		Linus